Lucky Ones

According to SAVE (Suicide Awareness Voices of Education), 250,000 people become suicide survivors every year. For every suicide committed, it intimately affects at least 5 people.

Lucky Ones is the story of 5 estranged best friends from summer camp whose lives become intertwined again when their mutual best friend kills himself on the eve of his 18th birthday. The play follows Taylor, Colin, Jess, Felicia and Carmen as they experience the confusion, loneliness, guilt and isolation that survivors of suicide know all too well. Through the three “acts” of this short play, each character will be experiencing a different stage of grief as they come of age in the wake of a major loss. The play is executed mainly in the second person monologues, with limited dialogue between characters in between. A drama with comedic elements, this play creates an uncomfortably honest dialogue about the unique loss that is suicide.